Archive for 'Gardening'
Me vs. Crabgrass
Posted on05. Mar, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.
“Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.” Dave Barry
I used to have such a beautiful front lawn. Before I bought the house, I would walk by it and admire the front lawn– it was lush and so beautiful! [...]
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Buy Organic, No Monsanto Seeds
Posted on01. Mar, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.
Small Pines, a terrific Adirondacks “homesteading” kind of blog, has a great post about buying seeds. He mentions the monolithic company, Monsanto:
The Monsanto Company supplies most of the major seed companies in the US. (There are lists out there you can check.) Monsanto is one of the major players in the genetically altered food world. [...]
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Cabin Fever Big Time
Posted on16. Feb, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.
*****sighhhhh****
Pardon me as I recollect…
Can’t you just smell them?
I wonder how my new bed in my Secret Garden will turn out this year. I’m so desperate I don’t even care about how ugly that sump pump pipe looks.
Ah, to see green again….
It’s been so gloomy this winter. I haven’t had cabin fever like this in [...]
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Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy
Posted on28. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.
We haven’t had hardly ANY snow this year, but the snowplows have gone wild! There are three road signs along the front of my property, and two of them are fallen on the curb, the victims of the maniac snowplow driver. One of them (a “No Parking” sign) is horribly mangled, as if the snowplow [...]
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Bug of the World
Posted on24. Oct, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.
Have you been invaded by ladybugs lately? We have. Last week the temperatures were below freezing; but this week, it’s been very mild– near 70 degrees today! And all this week that the temps have raised, the ladybugs are EVERYWHERE. We had a swarm swirling around our back door and our living room window. A [...]






